[Travel and Maps][Military][Greece] Coronelli, Vincenzo Maria. Seventeenth century first edition history chronicling the Venetian reconquest of the Peloponnese during the Sixth Turkish–Venetian War, a contemporary Catholic and Venetian account of Ottoman–European military conflict in the eastern Mediterranean. Issued amid the campaigns of 1684–1687, when the Republic of Venice seized control.....

Helps, Arthur. The Conquerors Of The New World And Their Bondsmen, 1848 examines the origins of African enslavement in the West Indies and Spanish America through archival research conducted in Madrid and offers a mid-nineteenth-century British critique of Iberian colonial violence. Drawing upon Spanish records, including unpublished materials consulted at.....

South African apartheid photo archive belonging to "M. Adams" documenting the segregated community of Korsten, Port Elizabeth, through vernacular photographs capturing sanitation, labor, schooling, health care, and everyday life through portraiture and street photography. A contemporary handwritten inventory headed “Slums of Korsten, Port Elizabeth, S.A.” links individual photographs to subjects.....

Burton, Richard Francis. Wit and Wisdom from West Africa. Or, a Book of Proverbial Philosophy, Idioms, Enigmas, and Laconisms, 1865, linguistic and cultural compilation assembled by the British explorer and scholar whose travels and writings contributed significantly to nineteenth century European knowledge of Africa and the Middle East. Burton’s work.....

English woman’s photo album documenting a year of work and travel in Apartheid era South Africa and Southern Rhodesia in 1954-1955, during a time when white colonies were well established during the consolidation of apartheid. Compiled by an English woman attached to the Over-Seas League, Torquay branch, and employed for.....

Early twentieth century travel photo album, compiled by “Jake,”documents the working life and global mobility of a merchant ship crewman during the 1930s and 1940s, with sustained visual attention to port cities across Africa, the Americas, and the United States. The album supports research into maritime labor, informal American commercial.....

French Colonized Algeria and North African Presence documented through a multi-generational family photo archive centered on Pierre Bove’s service as a tank commander and later presence within French military or transport facilities in North Africa, recording the movement of one family across metropolitan France, World War II service, and the.....

African press photo archive credited on the versos to Tomas D.W. Friedmann, documenting images of anticolonial war, apartheid labor, urban growth, and locals across Africa in 1970. These press photos translated events in Angola, South Africa, Nigeria, and Tunisia into public facing articles for western audiences. At the time of.....

Kingsley, Mary Henrietta. West African Studies, 1901, advances a detailed account of West African societies, religious systems, and legal structures based on fieldwork conducted during her travels between 1894 and 1895, offering a perspective that challenged prevailing European assumptions about African cultures. Kingsley’s writing addressed topics including property systems, religion.....

Congolese ceremonial and colonial encounter photo archive showing indigenous ceremonial dance, dress, and culture, uniformed troops, and Belgian officials in the Belgian Congo during the late 1940s and early 1950s. Key scenes are tied to the 1947 visit of Prince Regent Charles to Paulis. Belgium ruled the Congo from 1908.....

Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, dated in the album to 1923 and 1925, anchors this photograph album in the domestic world of white settler colonial rule, where household comfort, horseback leisure, indigenous mining labor, and racial hierarchy appear as parts of the same social order. Manuscript captions identify the Horwood estate in.....

Sudanese women, children, and men in village photo archive from the 1930s, when Sudan remained under Anglo-Egyptian rule, a colonial arrangement lasting from 1899 to 1956. Rural Sudan in this period was governed through “Native Administration,” introduced in the 1920s, which placed many local communities under chiefs and customary courts.....

Belgian colonial Congo photo archive depicting European officials, Indigenous Congolese adults and children, public ceremony, domestic labor, and railway grounds between the early twentieth century and 1950. Belgium formally ruled the Congo from 1908 until June 30, 1960, after King Leopold II’s Congo Free State became notorious for forced labor.....